What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Rik

they'd be far better if they didn't star Kirsten Dunst, who is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen!
Give me Emma Stone any day!

Sacrilege!!! Take it back!

[Gold6082]

Nightwatch

Elizabeth Taylor in Hitchcock style see's things from her window,is she mad or being driven Mad? Luckily Bill Dean Aka Harry "I'm a pensioner you know" Cross from Brookside is on hand as a detective in this rain drenched thriller on Warner Archive. Brilliant print,not too bad a film if somewhat unoriginal.


Thirst 1979

Australia proves yet again despite it's size how small it's acting community is as many characters and guest artists from Aussie soaps Prisoner & Sons & Daughters crop up yet again,now there's A Surprise!.

Some Woman is apparently a descendant of Elizabath Bathory and is kidnapped by Max Phipps aka Miracolous Mellops Bernie Dump! Deep Red's David Hemmings & a sinister actress I haven't actually seen elsewhere,whether she is dreaming or in reality or having memory loss is hard to establish,but whether she wants to or not these Motley Crew are determined SHE WILL be a vampire at any cost!.


Unspeakable

In the Words of Jessica Lange in season 1 of American Horror story "Jesus.H.Christ what is this?" well Troma Releases are always "different" but this was a stomach turning crude pointless exercise with no purpose other than stupidity & Gross actions. Anyone need a new place mat?


Pigs

Time has not been kind to this 1972 classic again on the Troma Label,not the worst film in the world but too drawn out & at times frankily boring. Oh did I mention far fetched?

[trebor8273]

Amazing Spider-Man 2

Just dire one of the worst superhero movies I've seen in a long time. Boring, unimaginative, awful script, direction, music and characters I just didn't care about, awful CGI. Just dragged on and on was glad when it ended, really could of been a good 30 minutes shorter. How could a superhero movie be so dull and boring. Marvel really need to get there full rights back to this character. Even more of a disappointment after seeing captain America the winter solider, which is everything this move was not. 4/10

[Nemesis]

Silent Running

I was totally engrossed in it and it was very well made. It's a masterpiece but not for the reasons that I thought it would be - I went in cold and unknowing, thinking that it was a sci-fi epic. It's less a sci-fi epic and more about one man's choices and the consequences stemming from them. Although I understood the main character's motivations for doing what he does, it was just too much. Not a film that I would care to revisit for some time.

The Octopus Season 1

Good 80s drama about a crusading detective aiming to break the mafia; they pretty much break him psychologically and in other ways. It took a while to get going but nevertheless, I'm in and will get season 2 in due course.

The White Dove/Josef Killian (Second Run)

Both Czech films - White Dove is the main feature. A carrier pigeon from Belgium gets blown off course and lands up in Czechoslovakia - it gets injured and a young boy has to nurse it back to health. Wonderful film showing the relationship between man and animal.

Josef Killian - a short film nearly 40 minutes long. A man ends up renting a cat for no apparent reason; tries to take it back the next day but the rental office has vanished as if it never existed. He's concerned because of penalties for late return and he has to go through various layers of bureaucracy - which is presumably what the film is taking a dig at. Not as accessible as White Dove, but still watchable.

Tokyo Fist

Brutal. Great effort by Third Window.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I consider Silent Running to be one of the greatest science-fiction films ever made. It's like the other side of the coin from 2001: A Space Odyssey, with Kubrick's masterpiece all about technology, whereas Trumbull's sci-fi great is more about the human side of space exploration. It features Bruce Dern's finest performance and some of the VFX are extraordinary.

[Nemesis]

It's just that last shot is so damn tragic - story-wise it makes perfect sense and it could not have not really been any other way. For me, it could have used a little more hope.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

It's just that last shot is so damn tragic - story-wise it makes perfect sense and it could not have not really been any other way. For me, it could have used a little more hope.

I think a different ending would have seemed like a cop out. I also love Joan Baez' music.

[SShaw]

Still in the U.K. Still on holiday. The Book Thief was still doing the rounds at the Dominion inEdinburgh, so I took the opportunity to see it. I haven't read the book and despite having seen many similar movies I still found a lot to enjoy here, although I am not convinced the narration by Death was necessary. I assume its a hang over from the book.

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I think a different ending would have seemed like a cop out. I also love Joan Baez' music.

I agree - it would have been a cop-out. But I find it harder to sympathise with Bruce Dern's character as a result.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Two things really spoilt the rebooted version for me. I hate the mechanical web shooters what a crap idea, the organic/genetic ones in Raimi's films made much more sense to me.

But in the original comic books, the webshooters were atrificial, wrist mounted mechanical devices!

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